Singer Aaron Carter’s Twin Says She Was Prepared For His Early Death At 34

Angel Carter, the twin sister of the late singer Aaron Carter, declared that she had been prepared for her brother’s premature death in 2022.

On November 5, 2022, Aaron, 34, was found drowned in his bathtub at his house in Lancaster, California, after medical personnel responded to a 911 call.

Additionally, Angel and the late singer’s sister, Leslie Carter, passed away on January 31, 2012.

Leslie’s stepmother, Ginger Carter, stated that she died due to overdosing on several prescription drugs, of which she was under the influence during the time of her death.

During an episode of the podcast titled The Squeeze on June 26, Angel told the hosts Taylor Lautner and Tay Lautner that the unfortunate demise of her sister prepared her for her brother’s death.

“What’s so interesting about Leslie’s passing – she passed away when I was 23, her death completely blindsided me,” she admitted. “I didn’t see that one coming. When she died, I was already in therapy, preparing for Aaron’s death. I thought he was going to die.”

She added that she spent the entirety of her life fearing Aaron’s death.

“I knew this day was going to come,” the singer’s sister stated. “And I think he knew it, too, ’cause he just couldn’t – he could not get out of [his drug addictions].”

“And, you know, I would try to be this sister who was tough and honest and, you know, ‘Let me help you.’ I was the peacemaker in my family, the mediator,” Angel shared. “Like, ‘Let’s just hug it out.’ Like, ‘It’s going to be okay.’ And he didn’t want to hear that from me. I was his sister, like, ‘Stay in your lane. You’re my sister, and I don’t want to hear that from you.’ Like, he needed his parents to step up.”

She said, “When Leslie died, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this completely blind-sighted me, [I] didn’t see that one coming.'” 

“And then for Aaron – after that – it just spiraled, yeah,” she mentioned. “And then my dad died. And then it just kept spiraling, yeah, and it just kept getting worse and worse, and his addiction grew and grew and got worse.”

“And I know I just – I got to a place with him in my late 20s where I was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to try to handle this a different way,'” Angel recalled. “Like, I’m going to try to just be more like – like, ‘Listen more and, you know, be more peaceful about it and not fight with him so much on it.'”

“But, in a way, I realized that I was enabling him, and I didn’t want to enable him anymore,” Angel stated.

As part of May’s Mental Health Awareness Month, Angel spoke in 2023 about how Aaron’s death inspired her to support the children’s mental health organization On Our Sleeves. In January 2023, she held the Songs For Tomorrow Benefit Concert, with proceeds going to On Our Sleeves. 

She hoped the concert would begin a conversation, saying that addiction was a “genetic component within my family,” noting that her parents came from “troubled homes,” which may have been a source of her and her siblings’ mental health struggles growing up.

Angel said that she was the only one in her family to go to therapy, attending every week ever since she was 18 years old. She mentioned that Aaron did not receive similar help and struggled with addiction, mental illness and “trauma within the home.” 

Now a mother to a four-year-old daughter, Angel stated that she wants to end the cycle of “generational dysfunction” by eliminating the shame connected to discussions of mental health struggles.